Article September 15, 1973 Issue

The Need for Divine Guidance

ROBERT JOHN ROBERTS

Our human experience may have been such as to produce the impression that God is unknowable. But Christian Science explains that every individual can and must eventually know God, become aware that He governs and guides man, and enjoy the blessings of this control. Further, it reveals the spiritually mental process by which this wholly desirable and true state of being is brought to realization.

Studying and practicing this demonstrable religion, we gradually cease to think of ourselves as mortals, sometimes mired in materiality. Instead, we claim and realize our true spiritual selfhood, ever one with God, His very expression, the individual manifestation of the one source of all good. Thereby we bring forth the fruits of true knowing: spiritual healing and regeneration. The price we must pay for divine, unerring guidance so that harmony may characterize our experience is a step-by-step yielding of the false impression that we are or ever were mortals, inherently weak, at times helpless, often the victims of guesswork, stumbling in the darkness of spiritual ignorance.

"Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love."^{Science and Health, p. 106;} These words of Mrs. Eddy's clearly point to the necessity of overcoming the pull of mortal mind, or material sense, toward the totally erroneous state of existence where man seems to be separate from God, the All-in-all. Mentally entertaining the truth that man is always one with God as His witness, we find our thought naturally turning Godward to guide our steps out of the darkness of mortal belief.